Improvement in shingling hipped roofs



' @UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ASHAEL'R. HOLCOMB, OIF NAPLES, NEV YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHINGLING HIPPED ROOFS,

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 40,036, dated September 22, 1863.

To all u'hom it may concern:

Beitknown that I, ASAHEL R. HoLcoMB, of Naples, in the county of Ontario and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvementin ShinglingHipped Roofs; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification:

Figure l is a plan of a portion of a roof, showing my improved inode of covering the hip; Fig. 2, a cross-section of the hip in the planes indicated by the red line, Fig. l Fig. 3, a similar section looking in the opposite direction.

Like letters designate corresponding parts in all the gures.

In the shingling of hipped roofs there is always at the meeting of each course with the hip, a small triangular space, which has heretofore been filled by a piece of shingle of similar shape and size, whose base corresponds in position with the straight base-line of that individual course. This triangular finishingpiece of shingle is so small, necessarily, that it is very ditticult and almost impossible to nail it in place without splitting, and even if this is accomplished, a slight exposure to the weather will cause it to warp and split, and thus become detached and render the roof leaky and imperfect. To remedy this imperfection of the hip it has been the custom to coverit, in addition to shingling, with weatherboards to keep the shingles in place, and at the same time to render the joint more nearly water-proof; but this is objectionable on several accounts, among which are that the water penetrates through the weather-boarding and is retained there, thus rotting the parts, and if any of the shingles need re- 1 placing at any time the boards can not be easily removed without disturbing thegwhole and tearing the shingles from place. It also necessitates extra cost.

It is the object of my invention to remedy these diflieulties and produce a roof by shingling alone, without the use of lweatherboards, in which the shingles covering the hip furnish sufcient surface for nailing without danger of splitting or warping or being detached from place, and at the same time make the joint perfectly water-tight.

In the accompanying drawings a portion of roof is represented, the hip A being situated in the center. The successive courses of shingies, from the base ot' the roof upward to the apex, are indicated by the reference letters a b c d, 81e.- and the first shingles of these courses (covering the joint of the hip) are indicated by b c d', Ste. At the junction (at the hip) of the two opposite corresponding base-courses a a the joint is covered by a continuous piece of tin or sheet-iron. B, of suitable size, as represented in Fig. l. Starting the next course, b, from here, its first shingle, b', instead of having its base placed on the saine base-line with the remainder of the course b and thus forming but a small triangular piece, is projected or extended down to the base of the preceding course a, just laid, or exactly one course below its fellows. In the same manner, each succeeding course is laid till the apex of the roof is reached. The arrangement is represented most clearly in the incomplete and uncovered course g, at the top in Fig. 1. At the angle where the joint-shingles b c d meet, on the opposite sides of the hip, the shingles are cut away to conform with the angle, and their contiguous edges are made bevelin g and those on the one side to overlap those on the other, as shown most clearly in Fig. 2. In like manner the side shingles, which extend up to the angle and are cut away, are made to overlap in the same manner, thus assisting in forming a tight joint, as the water that penetrates is thrown in opposite directions. This is the ordinary manner of overlapping in roofs of this kind. Thus arranged, the joint shingles b cd, 85o., by projecting below their fellows one course, furnish sufficient surface to be nailed securely in place without liability vof splitting more than any ordinary shingle, and to be nailed on opposite sides, instead of in acute angles, so that they cannot warp out ot' place. This advantage is manifest. In addition to this, that portion of the joint-shingle which is extended below its fellows is an additional thickness to the hip where it is necessary and indispensable in order to make a tight covering. There is but little if any more material expended than in the ordinary manner, for in the latter case the triangular pieces have to be cut from the butt 7 portion of the shingle, to lill the spaceproperly, thus leaving the rest worthless, whereas by my improved mode I make useful and effective a large portion of the shingle that Would other- Wise be thrown away. In this manner, by having an eXtra thickness, the covering of the hip is made as tight and water-proof as the plain portion of the roof, and the necessity of Weather-boarding, to secure additional tightness or to hold the shingling in place, is avoided.

I do not claim, broadly, covering the hip with a double thickness of shingles, as I am aware that such an effect has heretofore been produced in other relations; but

What I claim as my invention7 and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Subsiitnting for the ordinary small trianfurnishing an extra thickness of covering, y

substantially as herein set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

A. It. I-IOLCOMB.

YVitnesses ORvILL LEVALLY, CHARLES PALMER. 

